Melbourne - Australian Cardinal George Pell, who is serving a six-year sentence for child sex abuse, has been sent back to jail, after the two-day appeal hearing ended on Thursday without a decision from the judges.
The hearing ended on Thursday, but the judges reserved their decision until a later date, which has not been announced. Early on, senior prosecutor Chris Boyce made a disastrous slip-up by announcing the name of Pell's victim, which is not allowed in Victoria for sexual assault cases, forcing the Supreme Court chief judge Anne Ferguson to warn him to "be careful."
The prosecution argued on Thursday the complainant would not have known the layout of the cathedral's sacristy, where the abuse took place, as was evident during the trial, if he had never been there.On Wednesday, Pell's lawyer, Bret Walker, said that it was not possible for Pell to have committed the assaults without being detected.
Apart from arguing that Pell's convictions should be overturned on grounds of unreasonableness, his lawyers also argued two other grounds of appeal, both of which will likely lead to a retrial.
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